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Originally Posted by daedalusminos
Reluctant to pay approx £35 from an Audi dealer, I decided to go the local motor factor route, ...
Jonathan
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Others may correct me, but the A8 thermostat [at least for the V6 3.0 TDi] comes in a housing, so £35 isn't too bad. Note that Halfords quote £100 for an A8 thermostat and my local branch of Euro Car Parts quote £80. I haven't got a local Audi dealer so went to ebay and got a Gates one online for £35 delivered [not installed yet though].
There are conflicts about what needs to be done for thermostat removal. Some Audi docs [the 'timer units' one for workshop quotes, for example] quote over 4 hours because the 'cage' has to come out but other manuals [engine workshop manual] suggest it can be replaced by being careful with the water that comes out and just needs the belt cover removed and the housing undone from the block. [This info. as per the 3.0 TDi instructions].
Suggest you look for the Audi workshop manual for your engine elsewhere on this forum.
Julian